Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...House can't decide who should be President by Jan. 20, when Bill Clinton leaves office, what happens? A: A number of things could happen. The Senate could pick a vice president, with 51 Senators voting for either Lieberman or Cheney, and one of those two men would become President...
...Mikels' movies always have a preponderance of female leads. This is not only because Ted is fascinated by the ladies - "I've always had a deep, deep feeling about females," he notes - but because he had a number of them living with him for a period of about a dozen years in the 1970s and '80s. Dubbed the "Castle Ladies," for Ted's former castlelike Glendale, Calif., residence, the women were aspiring filmmakers who lived with Ted and served as the crew - and cast - of his films. "I had this big place, and I thought, well, I could bring them...
...most surprising thing about "The Doll Squad" is that this flashy little number is by far the least of Ted Mikels' efforts of the period. The plotline is doted on at length (always a mistake in low-budget espionage dramas with shapely female leads), and when the all-out action sequences finally do arrive, the visuals are incredibly dark. This is most likely due to the fact that much of the film's closing action was shot in one night, on which Ted had the temporary loan of a real machine gun (thus, the actresses are actually blasting away with...
...that's unconstitutional! you cry. Not exactly. As the New York Times reported Friday, the Constitution demands only that one presidential candidate receive the "majority of the whole number of electors appointed." In fact, the founders weren't all that sympathetic to states whose electors couldn't get themselves to the meeting, which used to be held in March, a full four months after the election: If your carriage got stuck in a sinkhole or your local bridge went out, you just missed the vote...
...several members of Florida's electoral apparatus, was to tell the roomful of reporters what they hadn't come to hear: They'd be done maybe Tuesday, maybe not, and anyway they should come back Friday, when they'll have the absentee ballots and there'll be only one number that matters. The press' numbers are meaningless, and quite likely to be wrong...